services

I help organizations work with Indigenous knowledge in the psychedelic field with care, clarity, and accountability. The work falls into a few areas, and most projects draw on more than one. Wherever you are starting, we begin with a conversation.

What guides the work

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    Ethics

    The work meets recognized standards of research ethics and the protocols communities define for themselves. Where these obligations conflict, the tension is named early and resolved in the community's interest.

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    Innovation

    New methods emerge where Indigenous knowledge systems and scientific practice meet, each strengthening what the other can do. Innovation here means combination, the approaches that appear only when two ways of knowing are held together.

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    Reciprocity

    Communities that contribute knowledge hold a share in the decisions made with it and the benefits that follow. Knowledge carries obligations, and those obligations run in both directions.

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    Relational accountability

    The work remains answerable to the people and places it affects, through a project and beyond its close. Accountability is measured by the relationship itself, and it outlasts any single deliverable.

What working together looks like

1) DISCOVERY

We start with a conversation about your project, your goals, and where Indigenous engagement fits.

2) SCOPING

I map the work including what is needed, who belongs at the table, and how to do it with care. You get a clear plan and scope.

3) ENGAGEMENT

I carry the work forward with you, from community engagement and research design to facilitation and program building.

4) DELIVERY

You receive the finished work, documented and ready to use, with guidance on how to carry it well after I step back.

Indigenous Engagement and Two-Eyed Seeing Strategy

I guide organizations in building genuine relationships with Indigenous communities and knowledge holders, from first contact through lasting partnership. My approach holds Indigenous knowledge systems and scientific practice together as equal partners, so the work earns trust and stands up to scrutiny. This covers engagement strategy, protocol design, and free, prior, and informed consent.

Program and Fellowship Design

I build programs and fellowships from first concept through curriculum, facilitation, and evaluation. I designed and direct the first Indigenous knowledge fellowship at a major psychedelic research center, and I bring that experience to organizations creating training, cohort programs, and community initiatives meant to last.

Research Design and Methods

I design studies that are rigorous and answerable to the communities they involve. Drawing on constructivist grounded theory, community-based participatory research, and Indigenous data governance, I help you ask the right questions, choose sound methods, and protect the knowledge and data your work touches.

workshops and training

I lead workshops for facilitator training programs, clinical teams, and research groups on ethical engagement and Indigenous data sovereignty. Participants leave with a working framework they can carry into the room, from free, prior, and informed consent to the CARE Principles for Indigenous data governance. Offered in person or online, in a two-hour or half-day format.

Speaking, Advisory, and Strategic Counsel

I speak, advise, and serve on councils where Indigenous perspective shapes the decision. Whether you need a keynote, a strategic thought partner, or a steady voice on an advisory board, I bring clarity to the ethical questions the psychedelic field is working through.

frameworks

  • Native nations have the right to govern the data gathered about their people, lands, and knowledge, and to decide how it is collected, held, and used. I build that authority into research and programs from the start, following the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance: collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, and ethics. I work alongside leaders in the field who helped shape them.

  • A framework from philosopher Kyle Powys Whyte, describing a community's capacity to adapt together across generations while staying in right relationship with one another and the living world. It shapes how I understand knowledge moving between elders and youth, and it gives my fellowship its name.

  • The study of how proven practices take hold in real settings. I use it, with human-centered design, to build programs that hold up in the communities they serve and to learn from how they perform.

  • A research approach where communities are partners in the work, shaping the questions, the methods, and what happens with the findings. Communities help lead the research about them, instead of sitting on the receiving end of it.

  • The standard for engaging Indigenous peoples before a project begins: freely given, sought early, and based on full information. I treat it as the starting line for any work that touches Native communities.